The Robinson Ransbottom Pottery has been in operation since 1900. Its founders had close ties with the world famous art potteries of this early era, the Weller and Roseville Potteries. During the late 1890’s, Frank Ransbottom was one of the area’s best known and most successful jobbers of the stoneware and earthenware products made in Roseville, Crooksville and Saltillo. The young Mr. Ransbottom was born in 1872, started selling at an early age and succeeded so …showed first 75 words of 289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 289 total…their father, Alfred, a pioneer in the Ohio pottery industry. Alfred had been actively engaged in pottery making before volunteering for service in he Union Army at the outbreak of the Civil War. Following his discharge in 1865, he operated the Bluebird Potteries on farms in Perry and Muskingum Counties. One of these was located just north of Roseville. It was here that Alfred taught the age-old skills of pottery making to each of his sons.